Here is a way 21st Century Skills and Technology Integration can be applied to the following familiar lesson, "WWII on the Home Front" | Sampled from Person Co. Lesson Plan....
Essential Question: How did World War II impact life on the home front for all Americans?
What do students need to learn to be able to answer the Essential Question? Assessment Prompt 1. Impact on jobs Assessment Prompt 2. Volunteer efforts Assessment Prompt 3. Japanese Internment
Remember, 21st Century Skills include the 4C's:
Critical Thinking
Communication
Creativity
Collaboration
Below is the description of this lesson. Can you pull out the rest of these 21st Century Skills in the lesson below and/or how do you think they could be added if not currently addressed to this lesson???
Information & Media (Technology) Literacy
Social Responsibility
Self-Directed Learning
Accountability & Adaptability
Instruction for AP#1: Place posters, letters, photos at stations around classroom. Model analyzing a document. Collaborative pairs rotate from station to station analyzing other documents and completing matrix organizer to tell how a variety of jobs and Americans helped with the war effort. Fill in the first two sections of the matrix graphic organizer.
AP#1: Choose a job from one of the stations/documents and write a job description or want ad for it OR have students “tell their story” from the assigned job role perspective.
Instruction for AP#2: Watch video clips “Victory Gardens Lead to Victory” (3 min.) and “We All do Our Part” (school volunteer efforts and scrap drives) (4 min) Discuss after each video segment and fill in the Home and School Volunteers section of the matrix, first with a partner and then with the group.
AP#2:Complete a RAFT: R(ole) School age child or housewife A(udience) Dad in the European or Pacific Theater F(ormat) Letter T(opic) how we’re helping out
Instruction for AP#3: Have pairs read segments from either Foster’s War or A Fence Away from Freedomand answer questions on a reading guide. DiscussJapanese internment and its effects on Japanese Americans and on all Americans based on the reading. Class discussion with pairs sharing then complete section on matrix.
AP#3:Take a position: Was Japanese internment right or wrong? Why? Write a letter to the editor or have partners write a set of interview questions and take turns being the interviewer asking the guest expert questions.
Assignment: Compare and contrast reactions of Americans/impacts after Pearl Harbor and after 9/11. Or Choose a position and construct support: Adversity creates unity or Adversity creates hostility. Summarizing: The Important Thing (about life on the home front)...
"WWII on the Home Front" | Sampled from Person Co. Lesson Plan....
Essential Question: How did World War II impact life on the home front for all Americans?
What do students need to learn to be able to answer the Essential Question?
Assessment Prompt 1. Impact on jobs
Assessment Prompt 2. Volunteer efforts
Assessment Prompt 3. Japanese Internment
Remember, 21st Century Skills include the 4C's:
- Critical Thinking
- Communication
- Creativity
- Collaboration
Below is the description of this lesson. Can you pull out the rest of these 21st Century Skills in the lesson below and/or how do you think they could be added if not currently addressed to this lesson???Instruction for AP#1: Place posters, letters, photos at stations around classroom. Model analyzing a document. Collaborative pairs rotate from station to station analyzing other documents and completing matrix organizer to tell how a variety of jobs and Americans helped with the war effort. Fill in the first two sections of the matrix graphic organizer.
AP#1: Choose a job from one of the stations/documents and write a job description or want ad for it OR have students “tell their story” from the assigned job role perspective.
Instruction for AP#2: Watch video clips “Victory Gardens Lead to Victory” (3 min.) and “We All do Our Part” (school volunteer efforts and scrap drives) (4 min) Discuss after each video segment and fill in the Home and School Volunteers section of the matrix, first with a partner and then with the group.
AP#2:Complete a RAFT: R(ole) School age child or housewife A(udience) Dad in the European or Pacific Theater F(ormat) Letter T(opic) how we’re helping out
Instruction for AP#3: Have pairs read segments from either Foster’s War or A Fence Away from Freedomand answer questions on a reading guide. Discuss Japanese internment and its effects on Japanese Americans and on all Americans based on the reading. Class discussion with pairs sharing then complete section on matrix.
AP#3:Take a position: Was Japanese internment right or wrong? Why? Write a letter to the editor or have partners write a set of interview questions and take turns being the interviewer asking the guest expert questions.
Assignment: Compare and contrast reactions of Americans/impacts after Pearl Harbor and after 9/11.
Or
Choose a position and construct support:
Adversity creates unity or Adversity creates hostility.
Summarizing: The Important Thing (about life on the home front)...
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